(n.) Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.
(n.) Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain; as, Scotch mist.
(n.) Hence, anything which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.
(v. t.) To cloud; to cover with mist; to dim.
(v. i.) To rain in very fine drops; as, it mists.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(2) Follow-up of a cohort of 1,165 steelworkers exposed to acid mists has been extended from 1981 to early 1986 for most cohort members, and information on smoking has also been collected.
(3) The sensitivity and specificity of cold air, ultrasonically nebulized distilled water mist (USM), and standard methacholine (MCH) challenges were studied in 21 children with asthma (mean age 11.5 years) and 12 normal children (mean age 14.2 years).
(4) Physicians and investigators should be aware of the striking effects of this compound, now widely used as a street drug "angel's mist" of "angel's dust", on neurophysiological functions.
(5) Migraine is the commonest form among the so-called primary headaches and the description of its clinical picture is lost in the mists of time.
(6) It appears that aerosol and mist treatments designed as epidemic control measures can be adapted to long-term preventive control of A. aegypti.
(7) Calves were exposed twice to aerosol mists of viable P haemolytica, using a treatment regimen previously shown to induce a resistant state.
(8) The patient herself associated the respiratory disease with a cool-mist humidifier sometimes used at work.
(9) Pregnant Myotis lucifugus were captured in mist nets set outside a large maternity colony and, in most cases, were examined 12-15 hours later.
(10) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(11) For long periods of life he travelled in the mist of depression.
(12) In adult men the left half of the head was covered with thick heat insulation, and the right hemiface was cooled by spraying a mist of water, and vigorous fanning.
(13) At one point, he and his fellow militias set up base in Virunga national park, famed for its gorillas in the mist , where they survived by eating monkeys and sometimes even elephants.
(14) Wilmshurst's remarks concerned a trial which he himself designed, called MIST, to find out whether closing small holes in the heart with one of NMT's medical devices could stop migraines – there is evidence of a link.
(15) Secondly, these patients' anecdotal experiences are entirely misleading: the MIST trial was negative (though I can find no mention of the MIST trial's final results anywhere on the NMT site, which is odd, because it's the only published trial I'm aware of that tests whether NMT's device prevents migraine).
(16) Data collected on various types of filters (dust and mist; dust, fume, and mist; paint, lacquer, and enamel mist; and high efficiency) challenged with a worst case-type sodium chloride (NaCl) and dioctyl phthalate (DOP) aerosol are presented.
(17) How many other "invisible" stories are out there, shrouded by thick legal mist?
(18) The lens was adhered to the eye for 35 min by periodically misting the eye with distilled water; during this time the records of eye position showed that the lens remained firmly attached to the eye.
(19) In conclusion, the finding that adenomas and adenocarcinomas were observed in mice exposed to chromic acid mist suggests the need to give careful attention to the possibility of respiratory cancers in chromium electroplating workers.
(20) Snare describes the portrait quite clearly: the young Charles with his large liquid eyes and pale face, appearing in three-quarter view without rigidity or outline, the painting as airy as mist (and the prince too young for Van Dyck, who only portrayed Charles in his 30s).
Mixt
Definition:
() of Mix
Example Sentences:
(1) This ELISA MIXT improves presently available assays for the detection of antimalaria antibodies directed against asexual blood stages in respect of standardization, sensitivity and specificity.
(2) Comparied with a Dogmatil forte tablet, the bioavailability, calculated by the AUC24 for a Sulpiril tablet was 159%, for a Sulpiril capsule 118%, for Dogmatil saft 77%, and for Sulpiril mixt.
(3) This situation resembles the in vitro observation made during mitogenic stimulation of lymphocytes by phytohemagglutinin, OKT3 or CML ("culture mixte lymphocytaire").
(4) Two Sulpiril capsules (100 mg S) gave significantly higher plasma sulpiride concentrations from 1 to 6 hours than 20 ml Sulpiril mixt.
(5) It will allow diagnosis by simple endo and exo oral examination, in deciduous and mixte denture.
(6) Two Sulpiril capsules (100 mg S) gave significantly higher sulpiride urine concentrations from 8 to 24 hours than 20 ml Sulpiril mixt.
(7) In the present investigation we compare the performance of a solid-phase assay based on three recombinant polypeptides corresponding to three asexual blood-stage antigens of P. falciparum (ELISA MIXT) with the reference method for the measurement of antimalaria antibodies: indirect immunofluorescence antibody assay (IFA).
(8) There was no significantly differences in this respect between either a Dogmatil forte tablet (200 mg S) and a Sulpiril tablet (200 mg S) or between Dogmatil saft (100 mg S) and Sulpiril mixt.
(9) The plasma concentrations (0--24 hours) and renal excretions (0--48 hours) of sulpiride were measured after Dogmatil forte (Schürholtz), or Sulpiril (Leiras) tablets both containing 200 mg of sulpiride, after two Sulpiril capsules (Leiras) containing 50 mg of sulpiride in each capsule, and after 20 ml Dogmatil saft (Schürholtz) and 20 ml Sulpiril mixt.
(10) The great majority of the differences were due to sera positive on ELISA MIXT but not by IFA.
(11) A new case of recombination at the HLA region has been established by mixte lymphocyte culture in the family of potential kidney recipient.
(12) The plasma half-life of sulpiride measured after two Sulpiril capsules, 20 ml Dogmatil saft and 20 ml Sulpiril mixt., was 9.4 hours, 9.5 hours, and 10.2 hours, respectively.
(13) We encountered 4 patients (3 women, 1 man) with cutaneous vasculitis: three have a delayed pressure urticaria, two a vascular purpura with which a mixt cryoglobulinemia.
(14) N'Dama and Baoule of that region have mixt infection of strongyles comprising of Trichchostrongylus 38%, Oesophastomum 30%, Cooperia 17%, Bunostomum 16%, Haemonchus 15%, Hematodirus 2% and Ostertagia 0,2%.
(15) These results were further improved, especially for detection of antimalaria antibodies in children, when a pool of all 3 polypeptides (ELISA MIXT) was used as antigen.
(16) When used for donor screening the repeat reactive rates for donors negative for HIV 1 and 2 antibodies ranged between 1.80% for Elavia Mixt from Pasteur, 0.27% Abbott combined and 0.15% for the Wellcome combined assays.
(17) All the samples have been examined by ELISA Rapid Elavia Mixt (Pasteur Vaccin).
(18) Most of the sera positive on ELISA MIXT reacted with parasite-derived components only on Western-blot.
(19) A comparative study was carried out on 110 sera from children or infants, suspected of HIV-antibody presence following several micro-ELISA assays, using four direct micro-ELISA (Wellcozyme HIV 1 + 2, Rapid Elavia Mixt, Ortho Diagnostics, RECVIH) and a competitive system--Wellcozyme-Recombinant.
(20) Mixte lente insulin (5 U X kg-1 X day-1) was given daily at 1700 h over 24 h or 5 consecutive days.